Hhhhhmmmmm..."...attack [the suspect] as aggressively and violently as possible..." and the fact that the majority of these attacks occur in "gun free" zones really underscores the reality that citizens are responsible for their own safety and security. The police can only do so much (and I'm thankful for what they do). I feel that these instances show that law-abiding citizens should be able carry firearms, while felons, illicit drug users, and the mentally ill should be in a nation-wide database that FFLs and citizens should be able to access to ensure they don't sell a gun to these folks. God bless the USA!

Maybe the NYPD should instruct residents in Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx and parts of Queens to do the same thing. Maybe a 'safe room with medical supplies' on the different corners of Bushwick and East New York would be a good idea, too. After all, it's in those places where the bullets fly and the blood flows in the streets ON A DAILY BASIS, where the NYC media fear to tread, and the REAL problem of shootings are taking place. The NYPD, under Ray Kelly, has made the police department just a pandering security office for the elite of the city, hiding behind the the cry of "terrorism" to explain away the lack of manpower and GUN ENFORCEMENT in less-than-desirable neighborhoods. And Kelly does it all to attempt to insure his bid for the mayor's office. Forget it, Ray....a white, Irish COP, has little or no chance to win a citywide elected office in NYC. That was over after O'Dwyer. The City Elite may be able to front you some money for your run for office, but they can't vote for you. They all live in Connecticut, Upper Westchester, Florida and New Jersey. The "homes" in the city are just to have a place to sleep over night during a snowstorm.

12:11 pm January 24, 2011

Da Bronx wrote:

It's sad that Ex-Bronxite is so racist and anti-white. He would see that for decades the brave men and women of the NYPD have worked tirelessly to reduce violent crime in the very neighborhoods that he claims are where the "bullets fly and the blood flows". Is it Ray Kelly's fault that criminals in these neighborhoods choose the moronic thug life rather than take advantage of the free education and other opportunities afforded to all? I too am an African-American male, and I grew up in the Pink Houses in East New York but I chose to go to school- enter the military and use the GI Bill to get a college degree. It was my choice and no, the NYPD never once bothered me because I was either in school working, or on my way to the library. Get the racist nonsense out of your head and wake up and smell the coffee. Indivudal choice is what will turn these neighborhoods around. The police can't stop all the evil in the world.

2:15 pm January 24, 2011

Leatherneck wrote:

It seems that ex-Bronxite has missed the forest for the trees, particularly with respect to the issue of GUN ENFORCEMENT (his caps, not mine). When the Director of Policy and Planning in the NYPD’s Counter-terrorism Unit [in the old days we used to capitalize titles of persons and organizations), states that avoidance of an armed shooter may not be possible. At that point, attacking the shooter is all you have left, but as a law abiding citizen, you have been stripped of any chance at achieving parity with the shooter. In NYC, you are disarmed by the law. Its kind of like taking a knife to a gun fight. The winner can be identified well before the fight begins. For the Police Department to counsel attacking an armed assailant with any means possible, but denying you parity with that person, it is telling you that the government expects you to become a victim with little chance of surviving the incident. That is easy for them to counsel; after all, they are all armed.

6:01 pm January 25, 2011

crimefreejo wrote:

. . . "fight back with a pen"? Would that be a semi-automatic pen or stapler? Excuse me may I borrow your phillips head screw driver to I can remove this table leg and hit you "agressively and violently" with it?

4:04 pm January 28, 2011

Barry Nixon wrote:

I think the research and advice to Corporate Security is very good, with one excepton. The recommendation to have a safe room can be a questionnable one with employers since frequently the shooter is a current or ex-employee who wouold know where the safe is located and the could actually make people in the safe room a 'sitting duck' target. Applying security concepts in the workplace versus public area oftentime warrant different measures because of the insider threat potential.

W. Barry NIxon, SPHR, Executive Directory, National Insitute for Prevention of Workplace Violence, Inc.; vistin WorkplaceViolence911.com to get more information

10:16 am October 28, 2012

Kalpna wrote:

Shawna - THANK YOU!!! I had so much fun watching you take pohtos of Alex! A few more months and I'm sure he'll be a little more cooperative Can't wait to see the rest, I know you did an AWESOME job!

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